Yes they do. During pregnancy, the mother’s body goes through numerous changes -physical and hormonal. Her health will be affected by the way the body is nourished during this period.

A healthy, balanced diet is necessary to help ensure you and your baby stay healthy throughout the pregnancy. The food you eat is your baby’s main source of nourishment, so it’s critical to consume foods that are rich in nutrients.

One of the biggest bad health habits plaguing people is not sleeping enough. 8 hours is said to be the healthy ideal but between late nights at high-pressure jobs & staying out late on weekends to blow off steam, many are not meeting this quota.

It's proven that sleep deprivation affects your body's immune system, hormone levels, mood, and decreases your ability to focus. As a result, you need to be proactive about making an effort to get more sleep.

Itching after you take a bath or shower isn’t uncommon. There are several culprits that could be the cause of your post-shower itchy skin and some are more common than others.

Below are a number of reasons behind what’s causing your skin to itch after showering.

1. Xerosis cutis

“Xerosis cutis” simply means that your skin is too dry. Soaking your skin in hot water for extended periods of time can strip your skin of its natural oils, irritating skin that already lacks moisture. Sometimes that results in itching after a shower.

MYTH 1: If I don’t have a family history of breast cancer, I won’t get it.

FACT: Most people diagnosed with breast cancer have no known family history.

Many people think of breast cancer as an inherited disease. But only about 5–10% of breast cancers are believed to be hereditary, meaning they’re caused by abnormal changes (or mutations) in certain genes passed from parent to child.

But how much salt is really too much? Check out this #Thread for a detailed analysis.

Sodium — often simply referred to as salt — is found in nearly everything you eat and drink.

It occurs naturally in many foods, is added to others during the manufacturing process and is used as a flavouring agent in foods cooked at home and in restaurants.

For some time, salt has been linked to high blood pressure, which causes damage to your blood vessels and arteries when chronically elevated. In turn, this increases your risk of heart disease, stroke, heart failure and kidney disease.

Ideally, falling asleep at night should take you 10-15 minutes but some people have issues with either falling or staying asleep.

Join us now as we discuss Insomnia, Sleep Apnea and other sleep disorders on @Smooth981FM. If you can't tune in, you can follow this thread.

So let's start with sleep apnea. This is a serious sleep disorder that occurs when a person's breathing is interrupted during sleep. People with untreated sleep apnea stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, sometimes hundreds of times.

Sleep apnea deprives the brain & body of oxygen.

There are two types of sleep apnea:

1. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA): This is more common and it is caused by a blockage of the airway, usually when the soft tissue in the back of the throat collapses during sleep.

So you get your dream job and do everything to be the best employee. You resume early, close late and even work on weekends. Things go on fine for years, till you started feeling tired all the time and even depressed.

Previously defined only as a “state of vital exhaustion,” burnout has now been classified as a “syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.”

The WHO emphasizes that burnout is specifically work-related—it “should not be applied to describe experiences in other areas of life". This is characterised by:

- A sense of exhaustion/depletion
- Mental distance from or negativity/cynicism about work
- Decreased effectiveness

Still on #InfantHealth...
Can you imagine that there are baby boys born with undescended testes? It is a common childhood condition that affects 1 in 25 newborn boys and if left untreated can cause testicular cancer or infertility.

What is Undescended testes?
Undescended testes, or cryptorchidism, is where a boy is born without one or both testicles in his scrotum.

Testicles (testes) are the male sex glands that produce sperm and sex hormones. For them to develop and function normally, they need to be slightly cooler than normal body temperature. This is why they are usually located in the scrotum (outside the body).

It may sound weird that some cereals are not good for babies but there are different types of cereals: cereals meant for babies, and cereals meant for older children and adults.

Infant Cereal is usually made from grains & other supplements processed for infant consumption. It is specially manufactured to meet the nutritional requirements of infants before the introduction of appropriate feeding or before they begin to eat food meant for older children.

So you’ve found that bae of life & you're ready to take the next step. There’s nothing we love more than love but there are health questions you both have to answer before making a lifelong commitment.

We all have peculiar quirks that aren’t necessarily ‘bad’ & definitely can’t qualify as criminal acts. At most, they’ll annoy people close to you and that would be all.

But what if we view these quirks with health lenses? Would you still want to indulge? Our bet is no.

1. Nail biting
Eww… Not only can this damage your teeth and the skin around your nail bed, it can also lead to infection. You also may get more colds and other illnesses when you put your fingers, which often carry germs, into your mouth.

Every now and then, the debate stirs about whether noodles are healthy or not. Debates on diet aren't bad; what's problematic is the various conflicting information shared with very little credible backing.